First Presbyterian Church ECO 323 Main Street, Greenville PA

August 2018

August Birthdays

John Forbes 8/2 Josh Hittle 8/3 Chuck Garrett 8/5 Zoe Johnson 8/5 Chris Truby 8/6 Marcia Barney 8/9 Gaby Beil 8/11 Jamie Ickes 8/12 Joyce Thomas 8/12 Archie Wallace 8/14 Ed Camlin 8/18 Patricia Peebles 8/18 Harry McMinn 8/19 Evelyn Wilson 8/19 Tom Harpst 8/22 Rebekah Petty 8/22 Betty Geisel 8/25 Kerry Overfield 8/25 Sawyer Truby 8/25 Darlene Ficeti 8/26 Greg Johnson 8/26 Rosemary Jones 8/26 Bonnie Rickert 8/31

Youth

Ryan Davis 8/8 Summer Stitt 8/10 Holden Williams 8/26

THE ANNUAL CHURCH PICNIC is planned for Sunday, August 5 following morning worship at First Presbyterian Church. Kelly and Jill Jones have graciously and generously opened their home at 35 Linn-Tyro Rd., Greenville, welcoming all of us for a good time of food and fellowship. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE for this special community-building time.) The plan is to eat together at noon. We are welcome to gather earlier if we choose. Dress is summer casual. Our Board of Deacons will host this special event, providing grilled hamburgers and hot dogs and beverages, inviting all who attend to bring a salad, side dish, or dessert to share.

DONATIONS are needed for the Creative Learning Christian School in Mercer. This school is a local ministry supported by First Presby. The school is having a garage sale fundraiser on Saturday, August 18th. The garage sale will be held at 589 E. Market St. in Mercer. Donations of use-able household items will be greatly appreciated. NO CLOTHING PLEASE! Donations need to be received no later than August 13th. Items can be dropped off at a designated location at First Presby or contact Dan Wilson to schedule a pick-up at 724-376-7346, or dan_sue46@hotmail.com Thanks in advance for your support!

Summer schedule Nursery only during 10:00 worship service

8/5/2018 Church Molly & Ryan Davis

8/12/2018 Church Amy Johnson & family

8/19/2018 Church Kelly Hittle & Nita Glassman

8/26/2018 Church Diane Dawson & Kim Brainard

9/2/2018 Church Sue Wilson & Sue Blum

9/9/2018 Sunday School All Church Breakfast

Church Stacey & Bretton Walberg

Teacher Training Sunday, August 26, 2018 during the Sunday School hour starting at 9:00 a.m. the Christian Education/Youth Committee will provide teacher training for all Sunday School teachers, Sunday School assistants, and Wednesday Night Light Teachers and Assis-tants. Teachers will receive additional information in the mail.

Church Website Do you ever want to hear a sermon again from Sunday, or missed a Sunday and want to hear the sermon presented that Sunday? Remember on our church web site at fpcgreenville.com you can listen to past sermons. Also on our web site you will find our latest Churchmouse news, the monthly church calendar, pictures of church events, Don Thomas Art Paintings, and church history. You can access the website from your smart phone, laptop, desktop computer or I-pad.

Thank You!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Once again, you – my wonderful Christian family-, have blessed me so much. Throughout my recent surgery and recuperation I have felt your prayers and am very grateful for them. The calls, visits and deli-cious food have all been so appreciated. Your contin-ued love makes each day a little brighter. I thank God for blessing me with you all. Blessings in Christ, Carole Lentz

GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD

PANTRY DONATIONS

Thank you for continuing to give.

The request for the month of August is:

Personal Care Items & School Supplies.

I would like to thank all the people who prayed for my dad. He is on a long road to recovery. I would like especially to thank my special friends during this time—Nancy Stevenson, Au-tumn Colby, Dave and Mary K. Miller, Jackie Grisetti, Ben Miller, Nancy and Tom Hoffacker and Joy Krueger. Sincerely, Treasa Gruber

FIRSTPRES DEACONS NEWS The Deacons will offer a winter car check in early October. Look for more information in the September Churchmouse. The Deacons are having CPR-AED Training on Thursday, September 20, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in Calvin Hall. Anyone interested in attending this training is welcome.

To my church family, Thank you for the scholarship to attend church camp. I went to Edinboro camp and had a wonderful time, it was a great experience and I can’t wait to go again. I made some new friends who I have stayed in touch with since leaving camp. Thank you again for making this experience possible. Connor Geiger

The Property Committee would like to thank Mike Lisko for donating his time and supplies for cleaning the stone bulletin board in front of our church. We appreciate Mike’s willingness to provide his service to our church.

JUST FOR WOMEN An evening full of laughter, learning, stories & music

On Sunday, September 30th at 5:00 p.m. Extreme Faith Productions presents Aspire Women’s Events at Grace Chapel Community Church, 4075 Lamor Road, Hermitage, PA. Included in the three-hour program are author and speaker Melissa Spoelstra, author and speaker Barb Roose, comedy by Kristin Weber and worship with Mia Koehne. Advance tickets are $35 for VIP, $25 for General Admission. Groups of 10 or more are $20 per person. To purchase tickets, call 480-812-1100 or go online at ASPIREWOMENSEVENTS.com.

939 Prayer Breakfast Please mark your calendars for Sunday, September 9, 2018 for our 939 Prayer Breakfast. Our breakfast will begin at 9:30 a.m. for all who would like to attend. This is open to all covenant partners and friends of the church. We want to send a special invitation to all our youth and their 939 prayer partners. This breakfast will begin our fall schedule with the Sunday school hour beginning at 9:30 a.m. and our morn-ing worship at 10:45 a.m. Our 939 Prayer Breakfast will be in place of Sunday school for this Sunday. Starting September 16 our regular Sunday school hour will begin at 9:30 a.m. Please consider attending a Sunday school class this fall. There will be classes for adults, a youth confirmation class, and classes for ages 2 through twelfth grade.

VIEW FROM THE PULPIT - IT IS POSSIBLE you have heard the report of a devastating fire that de-stroyed the First Presbyterian Church building in Girard PA (Erie County, Lake Erie Presbytery PCUSA), in the early morning hours of July 22. The pastor at FirstPres, Girard, is a colleague and a friend.

The congregation at FirstPres, Girard, gathered for worship Sunday, July 22, at the Lake City Presby-terian Church, a few hours after the fire. The congregation assembled to pray in the church parking lot Tuesday, July 24. Girard Church Session met Thursday, July 26, to begin to address the many and difficult issues before them.

I mention any of this to you who read this brief newsletter entry so I can also share with you a por-tion of the note the Stated Clerk of Lake Erie Presbytery—also a colleague and friend—sent to the Girard congregation hours following the fire:

‘Undoubtedly, there will be news reports announcing “the Girard Church has been destroyed by fire.” Without minimizing in any way the significance and long-range impact of your tragedy, should those words be used, they will not be telling the true story.’

‘To be certain, the building that housed the gathering of the Girard Presbyterian Church has burned. But no, the Girard Church is not destroyed! The Girard Church—made of its people and its minis-tries—is NOT destroyed.’

What a sobering - and important - reminder for all of us. DAD

LEADERSHIP AT SENECA HILLS BIBLE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER, 276 Damascus Rd., Polk, PA, has invited all interested men to a barbeque at the Camp -Friday, August 17, 6:00 PM until 8:30 PM- for a good dinner and great speaker. There is a plan for a gathering from FirstPres to attend. Please indicate your interest by calling the church office. ‘Seneca Hills exists to lead people, especially youth, to a vital personal relationship with Jesus Christ and a life of dedicated service to Him’

Visit From North Presbyterian Church Sunday, September 16, 2018 our church will once again host North Presbyterian from Cleveland, Ohio. This is the same church our youth visited in July to prepare and serve a meal for their congregation. On this day, members from North Presbyterian Church will worship with us. Following our morning worship service there will be an all-church tureen lunch with our guests from North Presbyterian Church. Following lunch, our guests will travel to the Oswald Farm to enjoy some outside time in the country. Please mark your calendar for this special day to share with our friends from Cleveland. The members of this church always look forward to visiting with us.

First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, PA 16125

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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

323 Main Street Greenville, PA 16125

724-588-6520 fax: 724-373-8287

Web site: www.fpcgreenville.com

E-mail: Church Office

office@fpcgreenville.com Rev. David Dobi, Senior Pastor

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Articles for the next issue of the Churchmouse may be submitted to the church office by August 20.

THANKS FOR REMEMBERING- - - - The next service of The Lord’s Supper at First Presbyterian Church is a plan for ‘Summer Communion’ - Sunday, August 19, 10:00 AM. A next regular meeting of Session is postponed one week until Monday, August 20 beginning at 6:30 PM in Calvin Hall. The Kids of the Kingdom ‘Get Acquainted Parties’ for the 2018-2019 School year take place August 29, beginning at 9:00 AM. The first day of the preschool year is September 5. ‘Summer Sunday Meeting Hours’ at First Presbyterian Church (Sunday School at 9:00 AM, Worship at 10:00 AM) continue through Labor Day Weekend. ‘Regular Sunday Meeting Hours’ (Sunday School at 9:30 AM, Worship at 10:45 AM) resume September 9.